ALCOHOL-RELATED DEATH: A MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR TO MORTALITY IN URBAN MIDDLE-AGED MEN
1982; Elsevier BV; Volume: 320; Issue: 8307 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0140-6736(82)90015-0
ISSN1474-547X
AutoresBo Petersson, Hans Kristensson, Peter Krantz, Erik Trell, N Sternby,
Tópico(s)Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
ResumoThe role of alcohol abuse in mortality was studied in an unselected population of over 10 000 46-48-year-old men in Malmö, Sweden. During follow-up of 0-6 years (mean 3 years) 199 men died. In 61 men (30·7%) death was alcohol related. A theoretical calculation of excess deaths in men with an alcohol-positive history yielded 78 deaths (39·2%). In the official cause of death statistics 10 of the deaths had been assigned alcoholic aetiology (5·0%). These estimates indicate that alcohol was the commonest underlying factor in death in this sample of middle-aged men. The number of deaths with alcoholic aetiology in official cause of death statistics should be multiplied by a factor of six to eight to arrive at the true alcohol-related death rate.
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